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Date:      Fri, 15 Jun 2012 19:45:36 -0400
From:      Super Bisquit <superbisquit@gmail.com>
To:        Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu>
Cc:        Samuel V Green III <macunkie@gmail.com>, FreeBSD PowerPC ML <freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: Xorg 7.5.2 on powerpc 9.0 Stable ?
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On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Justin Hibbits <jrh29@alumni.cwru.edu> wr=
ote:
> -CURRENT is the development version (not released, only compile from
> source), so newer than 9.0. =A0Normal users, especially new users, should
> stick with the releases.
>
> You may want to ask on freebsd-x11 mailing list for help with the Xorg po=
rt.
>
> - Justin
>
> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:19 AM, Samuel V Green III <macunkie@gmail.com>=
wrote:
>
>> Thanks Justin,
>>
>> As a "newbie" =A0can you help me understand what "-CURRENT" means ?
>> After my fresh install of 9.0 stable, =A0I ran
>> portsnap fetch
>> portsnap extract
>> portsnap update
>> Which updated to xorg 7.5.2 where I had build errors.
>> Is "-CURRENT a powerpc version of FreeBSD" =A0that is available that I
>> should be installing as a base system rather than 9.0 stable ?
>>
>> Thanks again for your help !
>>
>> Samuel.
>>
>>
>> On Jun 15, 2012, at 7:15 AM, Justin Hibbits wrote:
>>
>> On Fri, Jun 15, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Samuel V Green III <macunkie@gmail.com=
>wrote:
>>
>>> Has anyone successfully built this meta port on 9.0 stable ?
>>> I received =A0and error ( not a broken pipe) =A0but some dependency err=
or,
>>> =A0and reinstalled 9.0 stable to get the original xorg 7.5.1.
>>> So far my build of xorg 7.5.1 is building fine. =A0I originally =A0had =
it
>>> built, and gnome2 installed but afterwords could not get any internet
>>> connection configured.
>>> So I elected to start over figuring I choose wrong config options of th=
e
>>> org 7.5.1 install.
>>>
>>> Any ppc users successfully get xorg 7.5.2 to build ?
>>>
>>> Thank you,
>>>
>>> Samuel.
>>>
>>
>> I have Xorg 7.5.2 installed on my G4, working just fine. =A0However, thi=
s is
>> -CURRENT, but it shouldn't be too dissimilar from 9.0 in that regard. =
=A0I
>> haven't tried building gnome, though.
>>
>> - Justin
>>
>>
>>
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Justin,
What Samuel may need to do is install from 9.0 and upgrade the source
to CURRENT for building world and KERNEL.

Samuel,

Xorg should be built with only what you need on POWER(PC) machines.
The meta port of Xorg will break due to a few drivers being i386/amd64
only. Take a look at dmesg for the card vendor. On the forums there
exists the how to thread for installing to a G3; however, the
references to Xorg apply to all Power machines.



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